Man proposes to girlfriend as he’s being arrested

Timing is everything when choosing to propose, but one man threw the rule book out of the window by getting down on one knee...as he was being arrested.

Brandon Thompson, from Oklahoma in the US, was reportedly celebrating the fourth of July (which is also his birthday) with his family when the police turned up at his home. He had six warrants out against him at the time of arrest.

Footage shows Thompson being led away from his home, when he stops and asks a police officer if he can do something. He then drops down on one knee, hands cuffed behind his back, and asks partner Leandria Keith to marry him.

Clearly there was no ring involved, since Thompson’s hands were behind his back, but Keith happily accepted the proposal with a kiss for her partner.

"I knew I was gonna say yes," the bride-to-be told
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. "Like, I love him a lot. We go through our ups and downs. I guess it's like unconditional love, you know?"

The couple are now hoping that Thompson won’t be incarcerated, so that they can get on with planning their nuptials.

"Maybe by him taking this step to propose to her, so they can get married, he can take a step to getting his life together and putting these warrants behind him and improving the life of his kids and his future wife," Muskogee Police Department spokesman Lincoln Anderson said.